Indiana in natural gas dilemma
‘Fracking’ has made natural gas cheap and abundant, but prices could rise with demand, costing consumers.
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Report: Great Lakes cleanup helpful but needs better way to judge success
Federal officials and advocacy groups believe the project is making significant progress on pollution cleanup and other problems, but they’re short on yardsticks for confirming their impressions.
Damar veteran steps in to lead disability group
Child psychologist Jim Dalton leads a $43.5-million-per-year operation that serves clients with severe intellectual and behavioral challenges.
With Obamacare, insurers will still find ways to avoid risk
Obamacare put an end to health insurers’ worst methods for avoiding risk. But that doesn’t mean insurers have ended their risk-shifting ways. Not at all.
Foes say proposed reservoir would have adverse impact
A Muncie group that opposes a proposal to build a new reservoir in central Indiana says the project raises health concerns, including waste from former auto industry plants that might contaminate the reservoir.
Discount retailers, grocers await impact of food-stamp cut
With an estimated 8 percent of shoppers using food stamps, the impact will probably be felt most acutely by discount retailers such as Dollar General Corp., Family Dollar Stores Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores, analysts say.
KENNEDY: Money doesn’t buy happiness
When my mother told me money can’t buy happiness, she was evidently onto something. Recently, the World Happiness Report recognized Denmark—a cold country with one of those high-tax “socialist, nanny-state” governments—as the happiest nation on Earth.
IDEM chief: Fed rules essentially ban new coal plants
The commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Thomas Easterly, told lawmakers that the pending federal regulations will essentially rule out coal-fired power plants that currently generate much of the state’s electricity.
MILLER: Specialty medications have potential to cut costs
Today’s specialty medications are modern miracles, helping millions of patients with chronic, life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Indiana’s long fight for less government has politicians protecting own
Economists and politicians on both sides of the aisle have argued for years that streamlining government in Indiana could save millions of dollars, but vested interests and fear of change have stymied real reform.
GARRISON: We’re on a slippery slope to socialism
Central governments are really good at just a few things. Waging war, funding interstate highways (maybe), and protecting our borders (well, sort of) come to mind.
2013 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Cynthia ‘Cindy’ Simon Skjodt
Cynthia “Cindy” Simon Skjodt is founder and president at the Samerian Foundation and serves on the board of more than a dozen other not-for-profit organizations.
Think your coverage is unaffordable? Watch out for this Obamacare pitfall
Obamacare’s exchanges are requiring working Americans to grasp minute details of their employers’ health plans in order to avoid a nasty surprise from the IRS.
2013 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Connie Lawson
Indiana’s Secretary of State, Connie Lawson, has made financial literacy a big priority.
Health law fuels modest rise in costs
It’s long been known that Obamacare would make health benefits more expensive for most employers. Now, it’s finally becoming clearer by how much: about 9 percent, on average, according to a series of actuarial studies.
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Dr. Jihan Huggins, a family physician, has joined Community Physician Network, a part of the Community Health Network hospital system, in Indianapolis. She earned her medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. Valerie Moss, an OB/GYN, has joined Community Physician Network in Anderson. She holds a medical degree from the University of Louisville.
Dr. Richard Ofstein, a vascular surgeon, has joined Community Physician Network in Indianapolis. He earned his medical degree at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine.
Dr. Ashlie Stallion, a pediatrician, has joined Community Physician Network in Indianapolis. She completed her medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine and her pediatric residency at Riley Hospital for Children.
Gretchen Gutman has joined Bloomington-based Cook Group as vice president of public policy. She most recently served as associate vice president for governmental relations at Ball State University. She spent eight years as chief advisor to the Senate Finance Committee of the General Assembly and was a partner at the law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP in Indianapolis, where she worked with Cook on state-government policy. Gutman holds a bachelor’s in history and a master’s in public affairs from Indiana University-Bloomington. She earned her law degree from the IU School of Law in Indianapolis.
KENNEDY: ‘Makers’ take their share
The “makers and takers” narrative—promoted most prominently by Paul Ryan and eagerly adopted by Tea Party activists—is just the most recent manifestation of a persistent American fable that encourages people who believe they “stand on their own two feet” to aim moral indignation and opprobrium at those they believe are “sucking at the public you-know-what.”